Started. Welcome to politics and pros. I am justin, the programs manager at the store, i receive classrooms, books, and clients and i can try to speak closer. So thank you all for coming out tonight. Were honored to have Linda Hirshman speaking about sisterinlaws. Now would be the time to turn off any Electronic Devices that may be tempted to beep or buzz throughout the proceedings. Next, linda will be taking questions during the second half of the event. For that we ask that you use one of two microphones. Looks like theres just one tonight on my left. That way everyone here can hear it and it will be on recordings. At the end if you could help us out by folding up your chairs, that will help the cleanup process greatly. Linda hirshman, former professor and law degree from the university of degree and ph. D. In philosophy and practiced law for 15 years, during which she appeared before the u. S. Supreme court for three different cases. Since she has published several nonfiction works,
Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 they followed your lead, published the papers. At least were not alone. I have to tell the audience just a small eye roll here, because the New York Times was the first to publish the papers, but thats drama, after all. I wanted to ask both of you from a legal strategy standpoint, Daniel Ellsberg sending it out to so many papers, how does that change the governments ability to prosecute the case . Well, floyd should be the one to answer that first because he was directly involved. Right. Well, it did make it harder to prosecute the prior restraint case, the case that weve been talking about, against the times and then other papers. They did bring actions against the post, and the Christian Science monitor and other papers, you know, who got the papers from elsberg, to stop them as well. But one judge in the District Of Columbia board of appeals put it very well when lawyers were in front of him on this case. He said, youre asking u
Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 would either of your guests argue or say theres legitimacy to that argument that affirmative action per se is a right and my second question is about affirmative action on the federal level, a number of years ago i remembered there was a president ial candidate and one of his big campaign stump lines was the first thing he would do when he took his hand off the bible after he became president was sign an executive order to outlaw all federal affirmative action. Would it be that easy for a President Trump or any president to get rid of affirmative action that way . Thanks very much. Thank you. Let me start with your first question and then, randy, im sure has a lot of thoughts as well. I was involved in that case, the Southern Michigan case that youre talking about. I thought your question was great. It totally summarized exactly the issue which is you have in michigan and california state referendum that ban affirmative action in t
In what the architect called the central node of the structure it was adorned with red drapes and special columns made of marble imported from italy and spain. But tafts wish called for more than just a new courtroom. Just outside the space are rooms added to help both justices and attorneys prepare for oral argument. Lounge, thewyers clerk of the court and deputy and it is a fun place to be before going into the courtroom because theres camaraderie and you get to meet your opposing counsel if you have not met them before. It is friendly. There is a lot of Nervous Energy but it is friendly. It is designed to calm lawyers down that is doing their arguments for the first time, to make sure that theyre not faux pas and attempt to tell jokes during their oral arguments and not refer to their familiarity with one of the justices. That indeed they will survive the experience. They ought to see it as a place where they could make their best case and the court will hear them and they will get
Of ilr. Youve encountered several of the Board Members when youre checking in today and making your way into this room. I want to acknowledge carol who is where . Where are you, carol . Doing a lot of heavy lifting associate with this. [applause] a couple of business items i have to address. Photographs, recordings not permitted. Weve already turned off the cell phones, okay. Some business about ilr. Were beginning our full session on monday the 15th, less than two weeks, about ten days. We have an open house scheduled for next week, the tenth, at 1 00 at the Boca Raton Community center, which is right near the city hall near palmetto. Youre the Program Brochure on your seats when you came in that shows you are full program for the eightweek session, which i think looks very exciting. And those of you who are new to ilr, theres signup sheets in there as well which you can turn in when were done. Well, to business at hand. Were privileged of course today to have with us retired Supreme